| From the Vicksburg Whig |
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| April 28, 1863 |
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| The Yankee Raid -- Part #2 |
| The Yankees who burned Newton and
destroyed the Rail Road last Friday are still on the wing. They passed
through Hazlehurst on the New Orleans and Jackson {New
Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern} Rail Road on Monday, and
it was thought were pushing for Baton Rouge. We are inclined to
believe they will strike higher up, somewhere between Natchez and
Grand Gulf, where they will receive the protection of the Gun Boats,
and if necessary be crossed over to the Louisianan shore. The
expedition is said to be composed of the 6th and 7th Illinois Cavalry,
and the 2nd Indiana Cavalry, and one Battery of Six Two Pounder Guns,
all under the Command of Colonel Grierson, a daring officer, and a
graduate of West Point. Grierson left Lagrange, Tennessee, on the
16th, and passed on down to Newton by way of Philadelphia. Thirty-Six
Soldiers were paroled by Grierson in the Newton Hospital. The money
taken from the safe of the Southern {(of
Mississippi)} Rail Road Company was returned, all but Fifteen
Hundred Dollars by order of Colonel Grierson. The next moved to
Enterprise via Pineville, were met there by Colonel Goodman and
General Loring, and compelled to retreat, when they struck out for the
New Orleans and Jackson Rail Road. The Train made a very narrow escape
at Hazlehurst and had it not been for a young man named Johnson, the
Down Passenger Train would have been captured. The Telegraph Wires
having been cut immediately upon their arrival, of course we have no
particulars of what they did then. We learn that Trains will be
running through on the Southern Rail Road again in Three or Four days. |
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